In a Temple of Trees: A Novel - Hardcover

Hudson, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931561419 ISBN 13: 9781931561419

Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Cecil Durgin, a twelve-year-old African-American orphan, mutely witnesses the perverse buildup to a brutal murder at an exclusive hunting camp in 1958. Decades later, the shame and guilt still haunt him when fissures begin forming in the lives of several characters unwittingly connected by a young woman's body buried deep in the West Alabama woods. Thirty years of pressure and bitterness ignite an unstoppable chain reaction leading back to the night of the murder - and the truth.
In a Temple of Trees is the story of painful secrets and their aftermath on the powerful and the meek, husbands and wives, the living and the dead.

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Review:

"Bawdy, grotesque, beautiful, gruesome, ribald, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. Such is the paradox of Hudson's novel, a deeply dark, often absurd, but always true version of the ugly, old, racist South. Hudson is fearless in confronting the awful verities of a past and present most would like to forget or ignore. Not a book for those prone, in her words, to getting 'the vapors, ' but brilliant in its exploration of a society's self-loathing, of the refusal of a courageous few to let evil win out."

Brad Watson, National Book Award finalist (The Heaven of Mercury) and author of Miss Jane (2016)

About this edition

• Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931561419
• ISBN 13: 9781931561419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354